Santa Cilia (Miocene of Spain)

Where: Huesca, Spain (42.2° N, 0.2° W: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 2.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: MN 1 (23.0 - 22.4 Ma)

• Alvarez Sierra et al. do not designate an MN zone, but refer the locality to the Oligocene-Miocene boundary interval, local zone X

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCM

Primary reference: M. A. Alvarez Sierra, R. Daams, J. I. Lacomba, N. Lopez Martinez, A. J. Van Der Meulen, C. Sese, and J. De Visser. 1991. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy (micromammals) of the continental Oligocene-Miocene deposits of the North-Central Ebro Basin (Huesca, Spain). Scripta Geologica 94:1-77 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67191: authorized by Lars van den Hoek Ostende, entered by Lars van den Hoek Ostende on 13.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Prolagus vasconiensis Viret 1930 pika
type locality for P.v. fortis Lopez-Martinez & Sese, 1991
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821 beaver
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Rhodanomys oscensis n. sp. Alvarez Sierra 1989 rodent
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Peridyromys murinus Pomel 1853 dormouse
Pseudodryomys ibericus de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
? Vasseuromys priscus De Bonis 1973 dormouse
Vasseuromys rugosus Baudelot and De Bonis 1966 dormouse
"Quercomys bijamai" = Armantomys dormouse